18-Early "Lover" Series circa late 1982

When will these Lover outlines end?  Ha, I still love these letters together, I may have to revisit the Lover series in 3D. This outline has several cool concepts going on, first is what I called my broken letters, where large chunks of the letters are literally sliced from the piece and begin sliding away, the difficult part was keeping the outline and fill in consistent with the sliding pieces. I tried this several times after trying to perfect it, its something I havent seen recreated by other graffiti artist, although that doesnt mean its never been.

The other thing is the minimal black mini frame that just accents a little bit of the background, I had grown tired of the same old consistent frame wrapping around the piece and just started playing with it as decor. The frame is 100% as important as the piece itself and shouldn't be treated as just an accent color around the piece. I'm pretty sure I used that mini black frame to cover some of the marker bleed marks, necessity is the mother of invention after all.

I was also starting to use the really large super thick 3Ds, almost 30-40 % of the outline would be 3D which is tricky as if 1 line is off the entire outline is ruined, visually the viewer understands it makes no sense and wouldnt get the concept but when the 3D is straight it makes it feel balanced.

Lastly I will comment on the purple marker outline which gets really thick then really thin in certain areas, the thick parts ultimately become fill in in a way as they take up to half the area they are in. Overall I think this peice works well and is very well balanced and ultimately thats what I wanted to achieve, these days I'm not so concerned with balance but I did have to learn it to know how to manipulate it later.